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2020 Washington County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Washington County, VT went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 89K customer-hours (Vermont average 3.8 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 14 Vermont counties and 2187th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with VT, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Vermont customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Washington County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 1, 2020 01:15 | December 15, 2020 14:30 | 14d 13h | 5,209 | 11K |
| 2 | October 7, 2020 19:15 | October 8, 2020 20:15 | 1d 1h | 2,342 | 6,361 |
| 3 | November 2, 2020 14:15 | November 2, 2020 22:15 | 8h | 2,008 | 5,319 |
| 4 | January 11, 2020 14:00 | January 11, 2020 23:45 | 9h 45m | 1,714 | 1,794 |
| 5 | October 17, 2020 10:45 | October 17, 2020 14:15 | 3h 30m | 1,653 | 5,479 |
| 6 | February 27, 2020 16:15 | February 27, 2020 20:00 | 3h 45m | 1,586 | 2,535 |
| 7 | July 8, 2020 21:00 | July 9, 2020 10:30 | 13h 30m | 1,568 | 4,502 |
| 8 | July 20, 2020 11:15 | July 20, 2020 21:30 | 10h 15m | 1,230 | 5,174 |
| 9 | April 14, 2020 03:15 | April 14, 2020 07:15 | 4h | 1,041 | 1,656 |
| 10 | June 30, 2020 19:15 | July 1, 2020 10:45 | 15h 30m | 1,041 | 6,030 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 51 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Washington County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Mountain Power Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hardwick | - | - | - | - | - |
| Washington Electric Coop - (VT) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Northfield - (VT) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 100% of Vermont's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 41,387 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington County, VT annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/vermont/washington-county